Mighty Mouse Hangs on 10.6.1 Start UP

The "only" weird issue I have with the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 is when the Intel iMac
is cold (after being off all night) and I start. The startup sequence runs normal
until the mouse pointer is placed on the desktop and it freezes. I have to use the
button on the back to restart a second time. The 2nd restart always does the
trick and and the mouse works normal.
I have no idea what may be causing the corded Mighty Mouse to hang and I would
appreciate some suggestions. It is just an inconvenience to have to restart twice

If this is a wired mouse try a different USB port on startup. If that doesn't help
I don't have another port. I have the Mouse plugged into the keyboard as
all four USB port are dedicated to Printer, Keyboard (mouse), Serial to USB
adapter and an interface to digital com gear.
Delete this file.
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
Just trashed it and did a successful restart. Stay tuned for the cold start
test in the morning. The only setting selected in the System Preference/Mouse
was to activate the right click button.
Good tip..... I hope it works!

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I had exactly the same problem after giving my ball a super long scrub to clean it. Only the secondary click sometimes worked. Checked to cable iside, but no luck.
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Check for any dust in the LED hole. Try using a plain surface, like a solid colored mouse pad, if the surface is on the shiny side. If that does not work...
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Hello syn:
This is from the Bluetooth help database:
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Hi,
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Hi again Dai Bach,
Thanks for your help mate.
I was wondering, you use a wireless mighty mouse as well. I have now own 2 mighty mouse, my current wireless one and a wired one I had with my old Windows PC before I switched.
I am having great difficulty using the right click, which you are supposed to be able to do with the mighty mouse instead of control clicking to get the contextual menu up. If I do use the right click, it very rarely works, if it does work, I am amazed, but I can never repeat it!!!
I have to resort to control clicking with the mouse to get the contextual menu to appear, which sort of misses the point of having the mighty mouse in the first place!!! If this was the first time it had happened, I would say it was a problem with my mouse, but this is the second mighty mouse I have had and the same thing happened with my first one.
I tried changing the mouse settings to see if the mouse hardware works correctly. I went into the keyboard and mouse system preferences and switched the primary and secondary mouse buttons over so it was configured for a left handed person. The left click and right click actions then worked perfectly, but when I put the mouse back to the standard configuration, so the primary click was the left mouse button and the secondary cllick was the right, the right mouse button stopped working when I wanted to right click something!!
Why does the right click work when I have it set as the primary button, but not work when I have it set as the secondary button? Do you or anyone else have any ideas? Does this happen to you too? Is this a well known problem?
Cheers. Thanks for all your help.

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